Comments on: Respect The Wounded http://modernwarheroes.com/archives/274/respect-the-wounded/ To Remember and To Honor Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:24:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Martha Gillis http://modernwarheroes.com/archives/274/respect-the-wounded/comment-page-1/#comment-564 Martha Gillis Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:54:29 +0000 http://modernwarheroes.com/?p=274#comment-564 Sadly, Matt's sacrifice and service benefit these senselessly cruel folk as much as the sensitive, appreciative ones. I hope he will instead focus on comments like the following (copied from my blog about my nephew's death in Afghanistan) " I LIVE WHERE I CHOSE... I WORK WHERE I CHOSE.... I VOTE FOR WHOM I CHOSE... I SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE I WANT, WHEN I WANT... I MAKE ALL OF MY OWN DECISIONS ........ AND SO MUCH MORE........ FOR ALL OF THAT, I OWE OUR VETERANS MORE THAN I CAN EXPRESS....." A comment posted online. 5. "EVEN THOUGH I DO NOT FULLY AGREE, OR REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE IN [AFGHANISTAN], BRIAN DIED A HERO IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY. I CANNOT THINK OF A NOBLER CAUSE. " A comment posted online Thank you. So many people don't make the distinction. 6. "THERE IS NO GREATER CONFLICT WITHIN ME, HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT MY COUNTRY AND HOW DOES MY COUNTRY FEEL ABOUT ME." Portion of a comment posted online, cited as a scene in which Andre Braugher, playing Gen. Ben O. Davis, Jr., is speaking before a subcommittee on Capitol Hill in the movie The Tuskegee Airman. No military person should ever be in this position. Sadly, Matt’s sacrifice and service benefit these senselessly cruel folk as much as the sensitive, appreciative ones. I hope he will instead focus on comments like the following (copied from my blog about my nephew’s death in Afghanistan)

” I LIVE WHERE I CHOSE…

I WORK WHERE I CHOSE….

I VOTE FOR WHOM I CHOSE…

I SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE I WANT, WHEN I WANT…

I MAKE ALL OF MY OWN DECISIONS ……..

AND SO MUCH MORE……..

FOR ALL OF THAT, I OWE OUR VETERANS MORE THAN I CAN EXPRESS…..”

A comment posted online.

5. “EVEN THOUGH I DO NOT FULLY AGREE, OR REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY WE ARE IN [AFGHANISTAN], BRIAN DIED A HERO IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY. I CANNOT THINK OF A NOBLER CAUSE. ”

A comment posted online

Thank you. So many people don’t make the distinction.

6. “THERE IS NO GREATER CONFLICT WITHIN ME, HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT MY COUNTRY AND HOW DOES MY COUNTRY FEEL ABOUT ME.”

Portion of a comment posted online, cited as a scene in which Andre Braugher, playing Gen. Ben O. Davis, Jr., is speaking before a subcommittee on Capitol Hill in the movie The Tuskegee Airman.

No military person should ever be in this position.

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